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and On the Heavens, and several summaries of his philosophy have come down to us. Most of the remaining fragments can be found in Diels-Kranz. Unlike Parmenides, Melissus wrote his treatise in prose, not poetry. Like Parmenides, he claims that Being is one, ungenerated, indestructible, indivisible, changeless, motionless and the same. Melissus's philosophy differs from that of Parmenides in two respects: (1) Parmenides claims that Being is limited,

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